Who is Macaroni?

lll3lucky wrote:
Maybe we should just call the horse Mr. Ed. That's the only popular horse I remember. :lol:

Wilbur!

wickedlittle wrote:

annettemarc wrote:

wickedlittle wrote:
I think Macaroni has to be a horse on Sunday's new episode. I checked the Simpsons wiki horse section and that name isn't there.

Judging from that shed, the interior probably matches the interior of the shed in the episode where Lisa got a pony.

That's what I thought too, but I googled it and their wikia page actually has a horse section and says that one was called Princess.

Well, crap. And here I thought this thread held so much promise for me to show off my brilliance to the world.

Thank god I another thread to keep me entertained today. ;)

Looks more like an outside toilet from the old west than a stable........

wildminion wrote:
Looks more like an outside toilet from the old west than a stable........

That would REALLY make me wonder who Macaroni is! ;)

annettemarc wrote:

lll3lucky wrote:
Maybe we should just call the horse Mr. Ed. That's the only popular horse I remember. :lol:

Wilbur!

OMG!! I loved that show.

MaxxSpider wrote:

Isn't that the horse from Ren & Stimpy? I haven't seen that in a long time either.

lll3lucky wrote:

MaxxSpider wrote:

Isn't that the horse from Ren & Stimpy? I haven't seen that in a long time either.

Yeah that's him.

annettemarc wrote:

wickedlittle wrote:

annettemarc wrote:

wickedlittle wrote:
I think Macaroni has to be a horse on Sunday's new episode. I checked the Simpsons wiki horse section and that name isn't there.

Judging from that shed, the interior probably matches the interior of the shed in the episode where Lisa got a pony.

That's what I thought too, but I googled it and their wikia page actually has a horse section and says that one was called Princess.

Well, crap. And here I thought this thread held so much promise for me to show off my brilliance to the world.

Thank god I another thread to keep me entertained today. ;)

Not so lucky this time! ;-)

Auganaut wrote:
Oh boy, a Lisa wants/gets a pony show. :?

Anyways. I don't know if any of you have ever seen the show "Assume the position" with Robert Wuhl, he talks about history and some of the lesser know "facts" about it. Here is what he had to say about the Yankee Doodle song.

The U.S. patriotic song "Yankee Doodle" as an example from the American Revolution. "Yankee Doodle," Wuhl said, was actually a British song mocking what they saw as disheveled, disorganized American colonial soldiers -- but the colonists didn't realize they were being made fun of ("Doodle" meant "simpleton") and proudly adopted the song because they liked the tune. Indeed, the line "He stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" was a reference to excessively dressed effeminate 18th century British men who spoke with outlandish, epicene affectations and were derided in England as macaronis, Wuhl said. The song's meaning, he said, was that the simple colonists were so foolish that they didn't even know how to become macaronis -- all they did was stick a feather in their cap!

Omigod. And we American children sang it so proudly. What a riot!

Thanks for the background. (... As the UK contingent of the forum smile broadly ... )